ENABLING THE NEXT GENERATION OF AIRCRAFT

Aeronautics’ leading players need to address their chronic production backlog and embrace the possibilities of digital technologies. Altran deep cross-industry excellence enables them to tackle their R&D, production and business challenges.

35,000

aircraft required over the next 20 years

6 %

world air traffic passengers CAGR 2015‑2020

$5.8 Bn

in In-flight Entertainment and Connectivity revenue in 2020

THE CHALLENGE

The industry’s problem isn’t selling planes. It’s making planes. The current backlog for one leading manufacturer represents 10 years’ annual production. Digitization is also disrupting traditional models.
In this rapidly evolving environment, players need to address a wide range of challenges from the transition towards incremental development to the production ramp up issue and the development of new services. This fosters new approaches and new activities, calling for brand new skills.

Production ramp-up & Industry 4.0

Altran enhances your ramp-up performance while accompanying you in the development of the industrial roadmap towards the next generation of smart & digital factories (Industry 4.0) leveraging deep expertise and methods in the industrial environment:

World Class Center IoT Solutions

OUR CASE STUDIES

Innovation

Developing intelligent composite structures

Altran has been involved in SARISTU, a large-scale integrating project aimed at achieving reductions in aircraft weight and operational costs, as well as improvements in the flight-profile-specific aerodynamic performance

Case study / Solar Impulse

The first round-the-world solar-powered flight relied on Altran's flight-routing and autopilot systems.